Foot-guard for railways



(No Model.)

H. SULLINGS.

FOOT GUARD FOR RAILWAYS.

No. 296,363 Patented Apr. 8, 1884.

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HERVEY SULLINGS, OF KALAMAZOO, MIOIHGAX.

FOOT-GUARD FOR RAILWAYS.

SPECIFICATION foriningpart of Letters Patent No. 296,363, dated April 8, 1884.

Application filed August 23, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERVEY Kalamazoo, county of Kalamazoo, and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful 5 Improvement in Foot-Guards to Frogs, Switch Guard-Rails, and other Places on Railroads; and I do hereby declare that the following is a specificationof its construction and opera tion.

The accompanying drawings represent my invention and its operation and uses.

Similar letters of reference thereon indicate corresponding parts.

Figure l is a sectional view of my device, Fig. 2 is a plan View of saine. Fig. 3 is a side view of one part of my foot guard when constructed in two parts. Fig. 4 is a cross-section. Fig. 5 is a View with the rail adjacent removed to show Fig. 6 is a view of the guard when constructed level with the top of the rail.

The object of my invention is to provide the switch guard-rail and all other places on railroads where foot protection is required with the proper and suitable device for filling the space, so as to prevent the foot entering into or being caught or fastened therein.

In the drawings, a represents my device in 0 position as used. It is constructed whole, in

dimensions to fit and fill the space when desired, as shown in Fig. 2, or in two parts or halves, as shown in. Fig. 3, when the whole is not required inplaces on the track where 5 the half part is more suitable and better serves the purpose. The parts may be used together the same as when made whole, and serving the same purpose.

The device is made from metal in any de- 0 sired dimensions, length, width, 820., and

either cast, forged, or stamped. It is shaped, as shown by the figures in the drawings, so as to spike to the tie at one end as a safe and permanent fastening in place, and quickly and as easily removed, when desired, for repairing track, or otherwise, by simply withdrawing spikes and slipping it out of place. From the point where spiked to the tie, as described, it is shaped with a slightly-slanting SULLI-ncs, of.

as desired to completely fill the space and afford the protection to the foot, as designated. On either side of the device, along and adjoining the rail, it is turned up on an angle, flaring outward sufficient to leave the device and the space it occupies between the rails in a free and open shape,and of sufficient depth to admit the passage of the flange on the carwheel, and so when in position that part will come up and fit to or above the lower edge of the top part of the rail, as shown in Fig. 4 in drawings, and so that the foot cannot be caught or held in any space or place in the rails where the device is put or fixed, as represented and shown.

The device,when constructed in whole or in parts, as described, tapers more or less from where it is fastened to the tie, according to the space it is intended to fill. The narrow or pointed end, as shown at G in Fig. 5 of the drawings, is constructed substantially as represented by bending or turning it down in hooked form sufficient to fit and stand in the groove of the rail, between the top and lower parts thereof, forming as perfect fixture and support at that end as where spilled to the tie.

W'hen' the device is desired in spaces between the outside of two rails, and also in filling the frog where the flange of the car wheel does not run, it may be made high enough to fill the required space or nearly flush with top of rails without the edge being turned up, as before described, as represented by dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, and also by Fig. 6.

lVhat I claim as iny invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is"

1. In a footguard for railroad -tracks, a rigid level plate having upward and outward extending flanges fitting up against the under edge of the upper part of the rail, substantially as set forth and described.

2. In a foot-guard for railroad-tracks, a rigid plate with the point turned to fit into the groove and resting on the base of the rail,

with opposite end depressed suitable for rest- 20f the rail, with opposite end depressed for 10 ing on and spiking to the tie, substantially as specified and described.

3. In a footguard for railroad-track, a 5 rigid plate provided with upward and outward extending flanges to fit against the under edge of the upper part of the rail, with the point turned downward and outward, fitting into the groove, and resting on the base resting on and spiking to the tie,ho1din g it firmly in position, substantially as set forth and described.

HERVEY SULLINGS.

XVitnesses:

O. T. TUTHILL, W. O. TUTHILL. 

